BACKGROUND: Daniel Lashof of the Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC) has charged, "It is shocking to see in black
and white that the administration has no basis for its policy
[on climate change] beyond rhetoric and ideology." David
Hawins of NRDC added that "[President Bush's] handling of
the global warming issue to date has been irresponsible."

TEN SECOND RESPONSE: It is the NRDC and other fear mongers
who scare people with completely unproven claims that man is causing
climate change who are acting irresponsibly.

THIRTY SECOND RESPONSE: The National Resources Defense
Council and similar special interest groups would not exist and
would be unable to raise the vast sums of money that they do without
creating unfounded fear. Even many of the scientists who study
climate change for the U.N. have strong disagreements with the
reports that claim man is causing global warming or that there
will be any significant warming - natural or man-made - at all.

by Tom Randall, Director of Environmental & Regulatory
Affairs, The National Center for Public Policy Research